In TESTO, Wet Mess wet messifies the messiness of life with teeth and one chin hair; exploring transitions, testosterone, the edges of drag, the blurry line between performance and reality, character and self, and the magical in the mundane. Meet me at the computer of confused edges, for some guttural sexuality, too many images, where the made up shit becomes real.
Wearing our insides on the outsides, and waiting for the hateful crunchy key change. Expect moustache meals, desktop dreams, dykey desires, underwhelming overwhelm, trotting, lolling, humping, titting, farting, pinching at the dull flesh of life here and here and here and here and here and here. It's quite like, uh, I just back away, I, don’t perceive me, I'm in the wall.
Hoping you will understand,
Sincerely Wet xx
“TESTO” is genderpunk at its finest – it embodies so perfectly the feeling of seizing your autonomy…Watching it feels like taking my first deep breath in a very long time
The production quality & design are exceptionally high, w a beautiful set from which costumes emerge & then are seamlessly reabsorbed…The show is brilliantly executed, & Wet Mess is a deeply promising artist to watch in years to come.
Wet Mess’s shows are not only thrilling and wild but somehow sweet and life-enhancing (…) “The common stories around transness are very medicalised, binary and trauma-heavy,” Wet Mess says. “I’m interested in trying to show the messy, confusing, joyful humanness.”
● Wet Mess creates performance and film works that sit at the edges of drag, cabaret, performance and choreographic practice. Wet is currently working on TESTO, a solo show about testosterone, non-binary transition, and the use of drag to find, create and recreate ourselves on stage.
Recently they choreographed a music video for Tove Lo, and have worked on movement direction for artists such as Will Young, London Grammar and Wolf Alice.
In 2023 they performed as part of Sound of the Underground at the Royal Court by Travis Alabanza and Debbie Hannan, and Galatea by Emma Frankland as part of Brighton Fringe. In November 2021 they won Not Another Drag Competition which is one of the most prestigious drag competitions held for seven weeks at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern and since have been booked at queer venues in the UK and Internationally.
